Methods in Bioengineering: Microdevices in Biology and Medicine

Microfabrication technology has quietly changed the world around us. Hiding under the shiny coat of our cars, cellular phones, and music players, the silicon microchip markedly changed our way of life. Features a thousand times smaller than a single millimeter enable an unparallel control over electrical signals resulting in nearly magical computational, communication, and memory powers. At the dawn of this century, a similar revolution is changing the study of biology and the practice of m...